unknown capt lemuel gulliver (1 Ergebnisse)

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce copy of the famous pretended third volume to Gulliver's travels. Two parts, bound as one. Collated: Complete, with frontispiece and half title, and decorative head and tail pieces. Printed the year after the first edition, this volume is one of the best known spurious editions of the extended adventures of Gulliver. Purporting to be a third volume of Gulliver's travels, the work appeared in 1727, unattributed to a publisher. The volume has two parts, 'A Second Voyage to Brobdingnag' and 'A Voyage to Sevarambia' and was ultimately a poor imitation of Swift's original work, borrowing heavily from a French work 'L'Histoire des Severambes.' In his Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott referred to this work as 'the most impudent combination of piracy and forgery that ever occurred in the literary world' and 'a mere bookseller's catch-penny' of 'little genius'. Regardless of Scott's poor opinion, the work is a fascinating piece of literary history, particularly to a collector of works relating to Swift and his most famous creation. Very scarce, held at the V&A Libraries, Cambridge University, Oxford University and UCL, and last sold at auction in 2004. Rebacked in calf with original boards preserved. Externally, sound with light rubbing to boards, heavier to extremities, and slight loss to the head and tail of the spine. Hinges reinforced. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with tidemarks to endpapers and first six pages, including frontispiece. Pages generally clean with light handling marks and spots, and pages slightly cockled. Very Good. book.